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Guys Hacked AirPods to Give Their Grandmas Hearing Aids

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Something weird is happening with LLMs and Chess

dynomight.net
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The Poor UX/UI of Major Cloud Providers: ECS/VMs Management

ycombinator.com

The user experience of major cloud providers is surprisingly poor, especially when it comes to basic...
The user experience of major cloud providers is surprisingly poor, especially when it comes to basic VM/instance management. Here are some major pain points I've encountered:1. Complex Regional Segregation (AWS) - Instances are strictly segregated by regions - No unified view to manage instances across all regions b...
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The Corpus of United States State Statutes–Design, Construction and Use

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The inspiring scientists who saved the first seed bank

theguardian.com

Somewhere in the sky above, the mosquito drone of a plane’s propeller neared. Since Abram Kameraz...
Somewhere in the sky above, the mosquito drone of a plane’s propeller neared. Since Abram Kameraz had begun to commute by train from Leningrad (now St Petersburg) to the suburban town of Pavlovsk earlier in the summer of 1941, attacks by enemy planes had become a frequent cause of delay. Through the carriage window,...
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AI Progress Stalls as OpenAI, Google and Anthropic Hit Roadblocks

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MindsDB (YC W20) Is Hiring an Operations Analyst

grnh.se

MindsDB is a fast-growing AI startup headquartered in San Francisco, California. As a leading innovator bringing...
MindsDB is a fast-growing AI startup headquartered in San Francisco, California. As a leading innovator bringing AI and Data together, our passion is empowering companies to easily build AI capabilities that can Think, Understand and Orchestrate: enabling teams to move from prototyping & experimentation to productio...
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Perplexity: Why We're Experimenting with Advertising

perplexity.ai
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O2 unveils Daisy, the AI granny wasting scammers' time

virginmediao2.co.uk
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Terence Tao: "It can become more rational to think and act more boldly"

mathstodon.xyz
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Here’s Why I Decided to Buy 'InfoWars' [The Onion, but real news]

theonion.com

Bryce P. Tetraeder Today we celebrate a new addition to the Global Tetrahedron LLC family of...
Bryce P. Tetraeder Today we celebrate a new addition to the Global Tetrahedron LLC family of brands. And let me say, I really do see it as a family. Much like family members, our brands are abstract nodes of wealth, interchangeable assets for their patriarch to absorb and discard according to the opaque whims of the...
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Open-Source Software Is in Crisis

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A new saga is unfolding in the open-source realm. Matt Mullenweg, founder of open-source web content...
A new saga is unfolding in the open-source realm. Matt Mullenweg, founder of open-source web content management system WordPress, which powers about 40 percent of the world’s websites, has accused WP Engine, a hosting provider for WordPress-built websites, of violating WordPress trademarks. They’re currently embroil...

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On Building Git for Lawyers

substack.com

Over this past weekend, Twitter discovered the problem that I have dedicated the past four years...
Over this past weekend, Twitter discovered the problem that I have dedicated the past four years of my life to solving. Why don't lawyers and other non-coders use git?This is an important question. The legal system is the essential bedrock upon which all else in society is built. The protection of civil rights, peac...
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AI Makes Tech Debt More Expensive

gauge.sh

There is an emerging belief that AI will make tech debt less relevant. Since it’s getting...
There is an emerging belief that AI will make tech debt less relevant. Since it’s getting easier to write code, and easier to clean up code, wouldn’t it make sense that the typical company can handle a little more debt?The opposite is true - AI has significantly increased the real cost of carrying tech debt. The key...
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Boston Dynamics Spot Robot Watches Its Step [video]

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Meta Fined $843M by EU over Marketplace Ads

wsj.com
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Assembling a Game Boy Game with Meson

terinstock.com

I’ve been working on a Game Boy game off-and-on for the last few months (hopefully more...
I’ve been working on a Game Boy game off-and-on for the last few months (hopefully more details about this soon!). Up until recently I was building the game with GNU Make, but I was frustrated with configuring Make’s prerequisites for accurate dependency tracking. Often I’d change a file included by my target, but M...

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We can all be AI engineers – and we can do it with open source models

helix.ml

A couple of weeks ago, I gave a talk at Hannah Foxwell’s amazing AI for the...
A couple of weeks ago, I gave a talk at Hannah Foxwell’s amazing AI for the Rest of Us conference about something that's been brewing in my mind after years of working in DevOps, MLOps, and now GenAI: the barriers to AI engineering are crumbling fast. The tools have gotten good enough that if you can handle an IDE a...
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Japan unveils $65B plan to aid domestic chip industry

reuters.com
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Quarry: A modern computing environment for your World

lattice.xyz

Introducing Quarry: A modern computing environment for your World “But can it run Doom?” is a...
Introducing Quarry: A modern computing environment for your World “But can it run Doom?” is a well-known rallying cry in the computing world, which has spawned efforts to put the open-source first-person-shooter on everything from old Macs, to Pelotons, to tractors. Up until now, blockchains have largely fallen shor...
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PyPI now supports digital attestations

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The Onion wins Alex Jones' Infowars in bankruptcy auction

nbcnews.com

The Onion, the satirical news company that repeatedly spoofed conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, has won the...
The Onion, the satirical news company that repeatedly spoofed conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, has won the bankruptcy auction for control over his media empire — most notably InfoWars, the far-right, conspiracy-minded website that served as Jones' primary online platform.Jones announced the sale on X Thursday morning...
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Keycloak took 10 months to fix a 2FA bypass

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The Onion Buys Alex Jones's Infowars Out of Bankruptcy

nytimes.com

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SKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.The satirical news site planned to turn Infowars into a parody of itself, mocking “weird internet personalities” who peddle conspiracy theories and health sup...
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